45 Quotes About Subversion
- Author Alexis Lykiard
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to Vaneigem and the Situationists who by shrewd use of collage and juxtaposition exposed both the poverty and richness of slogans, and the thinly veiled hypocrisy of a "spectacular" society which by not respecting words abuses people, and by insulting the intelligence creates a state of political cretinisation in which the many and various forms of authoritarian control dominate.
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- Author Edward Abbey
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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- Author Nuno Roque
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I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert everything. I am like the originals buffoons. I love the rules because I can break them.
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- Author Kit Rocha
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It was the most subversive rebellion he'd allowed himself in all his years of obedience, the choice to make connections with people who should have been beneath his notice.
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- Author Will Willingham
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She was back. Even so, Will didn't move. He would wait her out, fake-relaxing in the uncomfortable chair with his head not against the wall, tapping his hands to Bureaucratic Barbara's brainwashing beat as an act of solidarity with every other man she'd tried to enervate with her bell and refusal to offer change.[inner dialog of Will Phillips]
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- Author Marty Rubin
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People come first-before ideas, beliefs, causes, ideals, goals. I try not to let anything subvert my love of people.
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- Author Charles Roetter
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Since 1945 there has been no Third World War. The development of nuclear weapons may prevent such a catastrophe. In the two World Wars words were one of a variety of weapons in the armory of the belligerent powers. In future, because of the advent of nuclear weapons, words may be the only arms which the super-powers can employ without risking annihilation.
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- Author Aldous Huxley
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Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive.
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- Author Marty Rubin
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All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.
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